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brunneis, apice hyalinis, conidiis lanceolatis vel clavatis, triseptatis, 

 hyalino-fuscis, 20-25 ^; 4. 



Hab. in foliis Mitchellse repentis, Gainesville, Florida 

 (Amer. bor.). — Sec. Speg. F. Arg. IV. p. 41, sporidia 42-50 ^; 15. 



19. Meliola orbicularis B. et C. Cuban Fungi n. 880. — Maculis 294 

 crassiusculis orbicularibus ; peritheciis globosis; appendicibus fle- 

 xuosis, curvatis, 50 a. long. crassis, obtusis ; sporidiis quadriseptatis. 



Hab. in ramis arborum prope summitatem, in Cuba, Februario. 



20. Meliola Cookeana Speg. in F. Argent. IV. p, 41. M. amphitricha 295 

 Fr. f. Callicarpce americance, Rav. F. Amer. n. 84. — Mycelio 

 late et irregulariter effuso, subcrustaceo, atro, ex hyphis densis- 

 simis, crassiusculis, breviTDiis, ramoso-intricatis congesto, mox prae- 

 cipue ad maturitatem, frustulatim secedente ac evanescente; hy- 

 phis conidiophoris paucissimis, rigidulis, saepius tantum -circa peri- 

 thecia inventis, apice obtusiusculis, integris, monosporis, 120-250 

 iiS-lO (conidiis deficientibus) ; peritheciis hinc inde.sparsis v. den- 

 siuscule gregariis, globulosis etiam in sicco, 150-200 a. diam., gla- 

 bris, granuloso-scaberulis, atris, carbonaceis, opacis; ascis tantum 

 per juventutem inveniendis, ellipticis, bisporis, breviter crasseque 

 stipitatis ; sporidiis primo hyalinis, dein opace fuligineis, cyiindra- 

 ceis, utrinque obtuse rotundatis 30-40 ^ 10-12, rectis, 4-septatis, 



ad septa constrictulis. 



Hab. in foliis Callicarpae americanse in Carolina austr., 

 Amer. bor. — Species Mel. Mitchellce peraffinis, difFert tamen my- 

 celio crustaceo, peritheciis majoribus, carbonaceis, sporidiis mino- 

 ribus semper rectis ; a M. amphitricha Fr. longe abhorrens. 



21. Meliola fuliginodes (Rehm) Sacc. Capnodimn fuliginocles Rehm, 995 

 Asc. n. 245 (1874). Spheconisca humilis Norman in bot. Not. 

 (1876) pag. 174. — Mycelio longe lateque epidermidem ramorum 

 obducente, griseo-fusco, tenuissimo, ex hyphis plus minusve ra- 

 mosis composito, quarum cellulis monostiche aggregatis, fuscis, 

 subrotundis, 5 u.. cr. ; peritheciis globosis minimis, nigro-fuscis, pa- 

 renchymaticis ; ascis pyriformi-clavatis, apice incrassatis, 45^:15, 

 8-sporis, paraphysibus perparcis, ramosis tenerrimis obvallatis; 

 sporidiis obtuse ellipticis, rectis curvulisve, 14 ^; 5, bi-quadricellu- 

 laribus, hyalinis v. fuscidulis, biseriatis. 



Hab. ad ramos siccos pendulos Aceris platanoidis, Wind- 

 sheim (Germania). — Nucleus jodi ope immutatus. 



22. Meliola? pulveracea Speg. Fung. Arg. IV. n. 118. — Mycelio 207 

 late irregulariter effuso, atro, tenui, velutino; hyphis repentibus 



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